By Kevin Mooney — Despite an adverse court ruling out of Ecuador, Chevron continues to remain on the offensive against trial lawyers who are suing the company over environmental allegations that have been hotly disputed.  An Ecuadorian appeals court in Lago Agrio  upheld a ruling earlier this month ordering the company to pay $18 billion in damages to plaintiffs who [...]

Go figure. The one group that organized coast to coast during the Obamacare debate to intimidate Americans to support the bill is also the one group getting out of it. According to a report in the Daily Caller, 543,812 workers who are members of labor unions have received waivers from Obamacare. Compare that to the 69,813 employees who work in [...]

By Kevin Mooney — Some state legislatures are taking a stand against abusive litigation practices that drive up costs for consumers and discourage business, according to a new report from the American Tort Reform Foundation (ATRF). Even as it identified “judicial hellholes” where judges apply the law against defendants in a manner that is considered unfair and unbalanced, ATRF called [...]

By Rick Manning — The incandescent light bulb has a new lease on life as Congress is delaying implementation of the impending January 1, 2012 ban on the sale of traditional 100 watt light bulbs until October 1 of this upcoming year. Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson, whose group has led the charge against banning consumer light bulb [...]

By Robert Romano — Since being introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, the so-called “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA) has drawn strong opposition from Internet companies large and small, as well as civil libertarians and grassroots organizations.  One of the major criticisms is that the legislation would give the government power to restrict access to websites that are deemed [...]

By Robert Romano — Do you like interacting with your friends on social networking sites like Facebook, or looking at user-created videos on YouTube? Or simply surfing on Google to find the most up to date news and information? Well, the Internet could get a lot more bumpy in the coming months.  Congress is considering legislation that Americans for Limited [...]

By Rebekah Rast — Once again the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is stepping on the toes of, well, everyone who owns, manufacturers or sells a vehicle. The EPA’s most recent announcement is all vehicles must meet an average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025—a doubling of today’s average of about 27 mpg, according to the Wall Street Journal. The [...]

By Kevin Mooney — Manufacturing jobs are coming back to Louisiana thanks to innovations in the energy industry that pressure groups in the northeast are attempting to block. The substantial deposits of natural gas that are now available could create about 35,000 jobs in the state as key industries mobilize to exploit these resources, according to the American Chemical Council [...]

Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has been the point of the spear in expanding the impact of government, destroying jobs and making regulatory decisions that are designed to drive energy producing industries like coal and oil, out of business through regulatory burdens that make those energy sources more costly to produce. Now, in an Energy News Now interview, as reported by [...]

By John Vinci — While the Supreme Court decides the fate of Obamacare, there is no pause in the bureaucratic battle over Obamacare’s implementation. Since the passage of Obamacare a year and a half ago, there have been over 50 regulations.  The regulatory documents that make up these regulations contain, by our count, 1,568,482 words.  To put that into context, [...]